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HIPC
Debt Relief Factsheet Here you can find the latest news and information about Debt Relief. [Please note that this is a PDF file and you will need Acrobat reader to access this. If you do not have this software you can download it here.] |
Further information on what the Treasury is doing for Debt Relief
can be found in the press releases listed here:
2000
3/00 UK Bans Export Credits
for Unproductive Expenditure to 63 Countries
5/00 Oxfam's Gilbert Murray
Memorial Lecture by the Chancellor of the Exchequer - Tuesday 11 January
2000
45/00 UK Urges Progress
for the World's Poorest Countries
142/00 Britain
to Renounce Debt Payments
151/00 Chancellor and
Clare Short welcome news that 22 of the poorest heavily indebted countries,
have had their debt relief agreed
1999
42/99 *CUT THE DEBT *BOOST THE AID *GIVE A BILLION *SELL THE
GOLD
82/99 MILLENNIUM TRUST FUND FOR DEBT RELIEF: Gordon Brown Announces $2,000 Million Fund to Help the World's Poorest Countries
91/99 Gordon Brown and
Clare Short Pledge $100 Million to Help the World's Poorest Countries
100/99 Chancellor Spells
Out Reforms which could Cancel Two-Thirds of the Poorest Countries'
Official Debts
213/99 Government to
Remove Burden of Debt from Poorest Countries
July 13th 1999
Debt Relief and Poverty Reduction: A UK Submission to Phase 2 of the HIPC Review
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